cookie timing

[Anon]

I want to make a cookie that stops a user from pressing a button more then 5 times. When the button gets hit 5 times a cookie is being created and I set the expire to 30s.
But the damn thing doesn't expire and its been 30minutes now.

How can I solve this or can someone please write a code for me that would stop a user from pressing a button more then 5 times inside 24h.

[rulian]

well, what you can do is save the user's first access time in a database table, every time the user presses the button it updates the count of user presses. so if
so if (($nowtime < $fisttime +606024) OR ($total > 5)) noshowbutton();
else showbutton();

function showbutton(){
echo "input type=submit";
}

function noshowbuttion(){
echo "Sorry, you have expired your uses";
}

well, this code wont work, but it should give you a nice idea how to get it to work